Am 22.10.2010 09:18, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi, > > If the source code only contains tabs characters, instead of spaces, > does... that means the source code files are a lot smaller. Does that also > result in the compiler parsing those files faster? After all, there is a > lot less characters to parse.
This is not done by the parser but by the scanner. In theory, it should be faster, however, I doubt that a time difference is measurable in real world code, the rest of the compiler needs much more time. > > Anybody actually done a speed test on this to see the speed difference? In 1.0.x the scanner took a significant amount of time due to the much faster backend. I don't think it will matter with 2.x _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
